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Old 22-February-07, 10:45 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Default Re: Installing RPM in Linux?

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Originally Posted by EvilClown
RPM 's won't work in Debian and it's derivatives without a bit of messing around. Try something like this:

sudo apt-get install alien

sudo alien -d nameoffile.rpm (This should convert it to a .deb)

sudo dpkg -i nameoffile.deb (That will install it)

You shouldn't be installing packages manually though to be honest. Just use apt (apt-get) or Synaptic package manager.

apt-cache search searchterm (This searches the repos)

apt-get install packagename (This installs)

apt-get remove packagename (This uninstalls)

Bittorrent should be right in the repos, just do apt-cache search torrent, and it will show all the clients.

I was about to say the same thing. But, I'll instead give this tidbit of knowledge to my fellow Linux users.

uTorrent is coded to be 100% Wine compatiable. If you use wine for any other program, then you can put uTorrent some where, make a script to launch it with wine, link that script to your PATH, and enjoy!
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